Inclusion & Belonging
The Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery & Communicative Disorders strives to uphold the University's standards for inclusion and belonging. The University's goal is to foster and sustain an environment of inclusiveness that empowers us all to achieve our highest potential without fear of prejudice or bias. We commit ourselves to building an exemplary educational community that offers a nurturing and challenging intellectual climate, a respect for the spectrum of human diversity, and a genuine understanding of the many differences that enrich a vibrant metropolitan research university. We celebrate diversity of thought, of life experiences, and of perspectives so that everyone, in the richness of all of their many unique and intersecting identities, feels included. The University expects every member of our academic family to embrace the underlying values of this vision and to demonstrate a strong commitment to attracting, retaining, and supporting students, faculty, and staff who act with integrity, accountability, mutual respect, professionalism, diversity, courtesy, fairness, and trustworthiness.
The program is committed to ensuring that faculty and members of the administrative/leadership team help foster the mission of the University of Louisville strategic plan through:
1) A commitment to the highest standards of scholarship for undergraduate, graduate and professional students in order to develop engaged citizens, leaders and scholars;
2) Practicing and applying research, scholarship and creative activity; and
3) Providing engaged service and outreach that improve the quality of life for local and global communities.
We expect every member of our program to uphold the values of this vision and remain committed to attracting and retaining faculty, residents and staff that also support this mission.
Additional resources:
UofL Commission on Diversity and Racial Equality (CODRE)
UofL Office of Institutional Equity
UofL Health Sciences Center Office of Health Equity & Engagement